Leon Rom

The pigs in the book Animal Farm were horrible leaders. Orwell, the author, introduces many poor characteristics of a bad leader when he writes about how the pigs. The pigs try and change the commandments to what they wanted them to be, make lies about different animals so that people believe him, and all the pigs wanted to do their separate thing that did not involve the other animals. Nelson Mandela was the total opposite as the pigs because he was a good leader in trying to help South Africa.…

Rough draft The book Animal Farm by George Orwell was written as an allegory for the Russian Revolution. Throughout the story different animals represent one of the major parts or people of the Revolution. For example, Napoleon represented Joseph Stalin, Squealer represented the propaganda being used, and Boxer represented the working class during that time. The animals revolution failed for many reasons throughout the book. Some of these reasons are that the power wasn’t equally spread out with…

From fairy tales to allegories, genres help readers determine the tone and purpose of a story. Even though in many literary works , the readers are capable of differentiating the genre, some books like Animal Farm by George Orwell use different elements from contrasting genres. Throughout Animal Farm, Orwell adapts components like talking animals from fables, universal truths from fairy tales, criticism on certain individuals from satires, and symbolic messages from allegories to enhance the…

On December eighteenth 1879 in Gori, Georgia, a small peasant village in Russia, Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili (more commonly known as Joseph Stalin) was born into a large family. Stalin had two brothers, Georgy Jughashvili, born one year before Stalin, and Mikhail Jughashvili, born three years before Stalin. However, none of Stalin's siblings survived through infancy. Stalin's father, Besarion Jughashvili, was a cobbler though later became an alcoholic and later becoming a vagrant.…

Joseph Stalin was an emerging leader in Russia in the early 1900’s. Soon he would become one of the most powerful, vicious, and terrorizing dictators of all time as he led the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in Russia from 1929 to 1953. Stalin was born in Gori, a small town in Georgia and grew with a rough childhood experiencing both abuse and poverty. In his late teenage years following his mother’s aspirations, Stalin was accepted with a scholarship to the Tiflis Theological…

What are you? What type of person are you? Do you fail to conform, to accepted standards, conventions, rules, or laws? Then you most likely are a nonconformist. Nonconformist are people who don't follow the status quo, they express opinions or beliefs other won’t. However living life as an nonconformist can be dangerous way of life. That's why most people just follow the norm and live an ordinary life. This can be shown with hens in the novel animal farm written by George Orwell. The hens are…

Napoleon who represents Stalin wanted at first a proletariat run government, where everyone was equal, but as time went on both Napoleon and Stalin got greedy with power and both became a communist dictator. With the new communist-run government, Napoleon (and Stalin) did not care about the working class and adapted to a way call capitalism. This created horrible changes for the working class as this economic and political system did not benefit them. In the book “Animal Farm” by George Orwell,…

Snowball vs Napoleon Napoleon and Snowball are two of the main characters in the story. Both pigs, Napoleon being of larger size but Snowball being more articulate and able to come up with more ideas and is very vivid. Both characters strive for the title of "leader" after Mr. Jones is removed from the farm. Both agree on their theory of "animalism" and their seven commandments by which the farm shall be run, but agree on very little of anything else. Snowball is viewed as the ideal…

Sadly many similarities in dystopian books and movies are showing up in our society today such as the different social classes, the government watching us online etcetera. It’s scary how dystopian books and movies are so closely similar to modern time.Some that really stand out are from the book Animal Farm by George Orwell and movie V for Vendetta. In summary, Animal farm revolves around the Russian Revolution but Mr. Orwell uses animals to delineate indirectly the people involved in the…

"But it was noticed at these two (Snowball Napoleon) were never an agreement. Whatever suggestion either of them made, the other could be counted on to oppose it."(Orwell 31) it all started with Mr. Jones, owner of the farm, forgot to feed the animals due to being inebriated. The animals were so hungry they broke through their stalls and ate what they found that. That is how the rebellion started. Although the animals won, there were two pigs who stood up and became in charge; Snowball and…